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landing strip

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as in landing field

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Recent Examples of landing strip If time flies, then 2025 moved at supersonic speed, and December is its landing strip. — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 1 Dec. 2025 The young pilot eventually saw a rural landing strip and a path along the canal in the Hungryland Preserve, Budensiek said. — Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026 To preserve stealth and the element of surprise, the operators might create a staging ground several miles from their objective, which might include building a makeshift landing strip. — Sheena Samu, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026 Those who don’t want to drive to Roy’s can actually fly into the desert landing strip behind the cafe (which was apparently one of California’s first airfields of any kind). — Joe Yogerst, CNN Money, 27 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for landing strip

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air base

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The city has a sprawling air base and is home to an infantry division.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 June 2026
At about the same time, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps had destroyed a vital and expensive E-3 AWACS aircraft, one of sixteen left in service, while it was parked at an air base deep inside Saudi Arabia.

— Christopher Hooks, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026

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